Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-3504
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
LOW Summary
A flaw was found in the hivex library in versions before 1.3.20. It is caused due to a lack of bounds check within the hivex_open function. An attacker could input a specially crafted Windows Registry (hive) file which would cause hivex to read memory beyond its normal bounds or cause the program to crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949687
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949687
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00011.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5BNKNVYFL36P2GBEB5O36LHFRYU575H/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5BNKNVYFL36P2GBEB5O36LHFRYU575H/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQXTEACRWYAZVNEOIWIYUFGG4GOXSQ22/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQXTEACRWYAZVNEOIWIYUFGG4GOXSQ22/